… Schwartz, and AA Stone (unpublished observations) recently found that EMA and recall-based
measures of pain were equally correlated with medication-taking and social impairment. …

Subjective wellbeing and health are closely linked to age. Three aspects of subjective
wellbeing can be distinguished—evaluative wellbeing (or life satisfaction), hedonic wellbeing (…

… that new information is obtained when cognitions, behaviors, or physiological measurements
are assessed on multiple occasions within the context of people’s daily routines (Stone, …

The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) assesses how people spend their time and how
they experience the various activities and settings of their lives, combining features of time-…

Discusses ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), recently developed approaches for
assessing behavioral and cognitive processes in their natural settings. Four qualities define …

The belief that high income is associated with good mood is widespread but mostly illusory.
People with above-average income are relatively satisfied with their lives but are barely …

Developed a new measure of coping with daily problems for use in longitudinal studies with
repeated assessments. Development began with a checklist of specific coping behaviors …

ContextNonpharmacological treatments with little patient cost or risk are useful supplements
to pharmacotherapy in the treatment of patients with chronic illness. Research has …

Rigorous methodological techniques have been developed in the last decade to improve
the reliability and accuracy of self reports from research volunteers and patients about their …

Methods and results We recruited 80 adults with chronic pain (pain for≥ 3 hours a day and
rated≥ 4 on a 10 point scale) and assigned 40 to keeping a paper diary and 40 to an …